Mentre costui così s'affligge e duole (Jacquet de Berchem)

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• (Posted 2015-01-11)  CPDL #34248:       

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2015-01-11).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 83 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes: Parts and source available at IMSLP.

General Information

Title: Mentre costui così s’affligge e duole
Composer: Jacquet de Berchem
Lyricist: Ludovico Ariosto

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1561 in Primo secondo et terzo libro del capriccio, no. 8
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Original text and translations

Italian text Mentre costui così s’affligge e duole, e fa degli occhi suoi tepida fonte, e dice queste e molte altre parole, che non mi par bisogno esser racconte; l’aventurosa sua fortuna vuole ch’alle orecchie d’Angelica sian conte: e così quel ne viene a un’ora, a un punto, ch’in mille anni o mai più non è raggiunto.

English translation While Sacripant laments him in this plight, And makes a tepid fountain of his eyes; And, what I deem not needful to recite, Pours forth yet other plaints and piteous cries; Propitious Fortune will his lady bright Should hear the youth lament him in such wise: And thus a moment compassed what, without Such chance, long ages had not brought about. Translation by William Stewart Rose